yearlings not ready for racing

[Guest vander mungo]

due to cold bad weather birds are only starting to exersise around loft,but not for long.cant start traning yet cause they dont look ready.problem is i only have a team of yearlings,whitch have only been avg,60,miles as y.b s  racing starts a week on sat,would it be safe to jump these birds to 4.th.race over 100.miles cause i dont think they will be ready before that.or should i give the old bird racing a miss this year.  any advice

[gingell]

how far is your first race bud :-/

[Guest spin cycle]

due to cold bad weather birds are only starting to exersise around loft,but not for long.cant start traning yet cause they dont look ready.problem is i only have a team of yearlings,whitch have only been avg,60,miles as y.b s  racing starts a week on sat,would it be safe to jump these birds to 4.th.race over 100.miles cause i dont think they will be ready before that.or should i give the old bird racing a miss this year.  any advice

 

by about mid may does your fed have some shorter comeback races...typically on the same weekend as nationals/classics?

[Tony C]

My yearlings wont be going this week neither, the week after were 114 miles and hopefully they'll go then.

[Guest vander mungo]

how far is your first race bud :-/

 

40,mile

[Guest vander mungo]

 

by about mid may does your fed have some shorter comeback races...typically on the same weekend as nationals/classics?

 

none

[dal2]

due to cold bad weather birds are only starting to exersise around loft,but not for long.cant start traning yet cause they dont look ready.problem is i only have a team of yearlings,whitch have only been avg,60,miles as y.b s  racing starts a week on sat,would it be safe to jump these birds to 4.th.race over 100.miles cause i dont think they will be ready before that.or should i give the old bird racing a miss this year.  any advice

 

Have you had birds shut up all winter? Could you not give them a start frae say 5 or 6 mile and ease it up frae there?

 

[hotrod]

you could jump them to 100 miles no probs billy as long as they have had some work under there belt ie 5/6 30/40 milers .

[Guest vander mungo]

 

Have you had birds shut up all winter? Could you not give them a start frae say 5 or 6 mile and ease it up frae there?

 

did this last sat,took them to johnstone 7 miles away took 2,hrs to get them all back didnt look nervous so dont think percy was a problem.p.s they have been in all winter, if i dont i am just a chuck wagon for the bops

[paul10121968]

i have a team of yearlings also but mine are exercising well and have been succesfully trained.there have been losses along the way but i think they are as ready as they,ll ever be.if you have any doubts about their readyness then do not send them.it would be a shame to lose them before they reached their full potential.

[jimbhoy29]

 

did this last sat,took them to johnstone 7 miles away took 2,hrs to get them all back didnt look nervous so dont think percy was a problem.p.s they have been in all winter, if i dont i am just a chuck wagon for the bops

 

the first 3 races are upto 100 mile  plenty of time to train them

[hotrod]

 

did this last sat,took them to johnstone 7 miles away took 2,hrs to get them all back didnt look nervous so dont think percy was a problem.p.s they have been in all winter, if i dont i am just a chuck wagon for the bops

 

johnstone billy ? theres a percy nest in the quarry in johnstone and there bloody good hunters ,then on way home they pass another quarry beith another pr of percy's  why go that way ? crazy imo and its north east of you .

[robbiedoo.]

my yearling hens 1st race is from 114 mile we start racing in a fortnight and havent been tossed yet . so i cant see any problems in you sending them .

[Guest vander mungo]

 

the first 3 races are upto 100 mile  plenty of time to train them

 

question was jim would it be safe to jump them 100,miles if not ready,not guranteed good traning weather anytime.would probably take stuarts advice, if its only 3,thirty mile tosses 1,week before 4,th race better towait till ther ready,than damage them buy pushing them to early in cold conditions.averages mean nothing to me,

[hotrod]

 

question was jim would it be safe to jump them 100,miles if not ready,not guranteed good traning weather anytime.would probably take stuarts advice, if its only 3,thirty mile tosses 1,week before 4,th race better towait till ther ready,than damage them buy pushing them to early in cold conditions.averages mean nothing to me,

 

its to be nice this weekend billy  around 14/15 degrees  get them out for a few spins  10/15 milers then c how the weather is during week .

[Guest IB]

Birds have been locked up most of winter, only getting them out regular last 2 weeks; racing starts in 2 weeks, and 100 mile race is 3 weeks after that. Plenty time to get majority trained up for that.

[Guest vander mungo]

 

its to be nice this weekend billy  around 14/15 degrees  get them out for a few spins  10/15 milers then c how the weather is during week .

 

cheers,stuart on holiday all next week will be working on trying to get them fit

[BLACK W F]

i have mostly yearlings they only been out every day the last week and a half but they are bouncing  i hope to get a half dozen chucks in then they all will go first race   but they where out most week ends weather permitting through the year  

[hotrod]

 

cheers,stuart on holiday all next week will be working on trying to get them fit

 

they dont need to be that fit for 40 mile race billy  ,trained to about 20 miles  2 or 3 times  would do them fine mate  40 miles is only at normal speed an hours fly .surely even bird straight oot the dookit could fly for an hour as long as there naw like turkeys /too heavy

[dal2]

 

they dont need to be that fit for 40 mile race billy  ,trained to about 20 miles  2 or 3 times  would do them fine mate  40 miles is only at normal speed an hours fly .surely even bird straight oot the dookit could fly for an hour as long as there naw like turkeys /too heavy

Nae way. If their no right you could loose them from 10mile!

 

 

[dal2]

 

they dont need to be that fit for 40 mile race billy  ,trained to about 20 miles  2 or 3 times  would do them fine mate  40 miles is only at normal speed an hours fly .surely even bird straight oot the dookit could fly for an hour as long as there naw like turkeys /too heavy

Nae way. If their no right you could loose them from 10mile!

 

 

[hotrod]

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Nae way. If their no right you could loose them from 10mile!

 

 

aye mate mibee you could .

[Guest vander mungo]

 

they dont need to be that fit for 40 mile race billy  ,trained to about 20 miles  2 or 3 times  would do them fine mate  40 miles is only at normal speed an hours fly .surely even bird straight oot the dookit could fly for an hour as long as there naw like turkeys /too heavy

 

would be nice to get some to 1,st race cause iam working 5,miles from dunbar our 2,nd race could give the ones thats been a midweek from there in preperation for it. what you think

[dal2]

 

would be nice to get some to 1,st race cause iam working 5,miles from dunbar our 2,nd race could give the ones thats been a midweek from there in preperation for it. what you think

 

 

Take it all else well in loft un they just bein lazy, Took 38 19 mile yesterday for first go, these birds been oot every day o winter weather permitting. Got all eventually took boot 5 hours first tae last. Birds were a bit flighty but just shows ya. Where do they gan!!

 

[bibendium]

had 1st toss yesterday from stonehouse , all home no probs,